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CHAPTER 26—Pre-palatial Newport
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The historic Ocean House of Newport is a ruin. Flames have laid low the unsightly structure that was at one time the best-known hotel in America. Its fifty-odd years of existence, as well as its day, are over. Having served a purpose, it has departed, together with the generation and habits of life that produced it, into the limbo1 where old houses, old customs, and superannuated2 ideas survive,—the memory of the few who like to recall other days and wander from time to time in a reconstructed past.
There was a certain appropriateness in the manner of its taking off. The proud old structure had doubtless heard projects of rebuilding discussed by its owners (who for some years had been threatening to tear it down); wounded doubtless by unflattering truths, the hotel decided3 that if its days were numbered, an exit worthy4 of a leading rôle was at least possible. “Pull me down, indeed! That is all very well for ordinary hostleries, but from an establishment of my pretensions5, that has received the aristocracy of the country, and countless6 foreign swells7, something more is expected!”
So it turned the matter over and debated within its shaky old brain (Mrs. Skewton fashion) what would be the most becoming and effective way of retiring from the social whirl. Balls have been overdone8; people are no longer tempted9 by receptions; a banquet was out of the question. Suddenly the wily building hit on an idea. “I’ll give them a feu d’artifice. There hasn’t been a first-class fire here since I burned myself down fifty-three years ago! That kind of entertainment hasn’t been run into the ground like everything else in these
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limbo
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pretensions
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自称( pretension的名词复数 ); 自命不凡; 要求; 权力 | |
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adj.无数的,多得不计其数的 | |
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增强( swell的第三人称单数 ); 肿胀; (使)凸出; 充满(激情) | |
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celebrity
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n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望 | |
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dearth
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n.缺乏,粮食不足,饥谨 | |
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demise
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palatial
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adj.宫殿般的,宏伟的 | |
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destined
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lasting
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vt.分配,分发;配(药),发(药);实施 | |
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archaic
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adj.(语言、词汇等)古代的,已不通用的 | |
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n.活力,精力,元气 | |
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adj.假冒的,虚假的 | |
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prolix
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refinement
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peculiarity
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hacks
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piazzas
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n.广场,市场( piazza的名词复数 ) | |
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inane
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disappearance
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n.消失,消散,失踪 | |
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testimony
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n.证词;见证,证明 | |
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n.觉醒,醒悟 adj.觉醒中的;唤醒的 | |
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herding
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v.把…烧成炭( char的过去式);烧焦 | |
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retired
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adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的 | |
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ragged
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urchin
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